by Jenna Kominski | Sep 28, 2020 | Blog, Monday Message, Monday Motivation
Poets help us to see beauty and mystery that we might otherwise walk right by without noticing. They do the work of exploring and articulating feelings and experiences which so often open our own hearts to depths of feeling which we could not find the words to...
by Jenna Kominski | Sep 14, 2020 | Blog, Monday Message, Monday Motivation
If we hope to achieve some level of mutual understanding and shared sense of destiny, we must on a fundamental level, challenge the illusion of our separateness and embrace the fact that our fates and our fortunes are inextricably intertwined. Here is how Trappist...
by Jenna Kominski | Aug 31, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation
Poet and theologian Frederick Buechner writes words of wisdom for us that still resonate today, “Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less in the excitement and gladness . . . because in the last analysis...
by Jenna Kominski | Aug 20, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation
It is easy to become so caught up in how people respond to the things we do that we are robbed of the fulfillment that came from doing them. Mother Theresa knew a little something about that. She gives us this advice: People are often unreasonable and self-centered....
by Jenna Kominski | Aug 9, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation
The daily practice of gratitude involves a conscious choice to swim against the current of our natural human tendency to take things for granted. To walk by natural beauty without so much as a pause of appreciation. To fail to realize every day the inestimable value...
by Jenna Kominski | Aug 2, 2020 | Blog, Monday Message, Monday Motivation
What a wonderful and powerful thing hope is. Undeterred by those forces which seek to thwart the upward rise of the soul, it forges forward with the vision firmly in view of what could be, what should be. May we find the embers of hope within our own hearts and fan...
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